Meaning of tempus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a time (a portion or period of time)
   declension-3, literally, neuter
2. an interval, period (the time intervening between two events)
   declension-3, especially, literally, neuter
3. time
   declension-3, literally, neuter, usually
4. the kairos, right time, due season, due time, proper time, appointed time, opportune time, opportunity
   declension-3, literally, neuter
5. the temples (sides of the head)
   declension-3, in-plural, neuter
6. (in general) the face, visage; the head
   declension-3, neuter, poetic
7. the state of the times, position, state, condition; (in the plural) the times, circumstances (the time or age in its moral aspects)
   declension-3, neuter
8. time; measure, quantity
   declension-3, neuter, rhetoric
9. a tense (property of a verb that indicates the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs)
   declension-3, neuter
10. the weather
    Medieval-Latin, declension-3, neuter, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“ad/in tempus”

temporarily; for a time

“tempus diurnum”

daytime

“sed fvgit intereā fvgit inreparābile tempvs”

But it flees, meanwhile, it flees... irretrievable time.

“Cur anni tempora morbos adportant?”

Why do the seasons of the year bring maladies?

“per īdem tempus annōrum novem, ab ūndēvīcēnsimō annō aetātis meae ūsque ad duodētrīcēnsimum, sēdūcēbāmur et sēdūcēbāmus”

During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.

“Omnia, Lūcīlī, aliēna sunt; tempus tantum nostrum est ….”

All things, Lucilius, are otherwise; time alone is ours.

“in tempore”

at the appropriate time; in due season

“ad tempus venīre”

to come at the right time

“ante tempus”

too soon

“prō tempore”

according to the circumstances

“Ō tempora, ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit, cōnsul videt; hic tamen vīvit. Vīvit?”

Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

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